Word: bus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Diaspora, they spoke 100 languages and worshiped their God according to the divergent traditions of myriad Jewish sects. Though many modern Jews pay only lip service to their religion, Orthodox Jews dominated Israeli society and lawmaking from the first, are responsible for the many restrictions and proscriptions (no public bus service on the Sabbath, the refusal of restaurants to serve milk and meat at the same meal) that make Israel a sort of secular theocracy...
...year. Six months ago, Minneapolis voters defeated a proposed $16 million increase in their real estate taxes to cover a boost in the budget. As a result, the board of education was forced to cut back expenditures for new books, educational films, teachers' sabbaticals and bus services...
...Motorist Dominga Lopez found herself in a different kind of bind. She carried a $100-deductible policy, and her insurance company tried to get her to pay $200 damages herself by insisting that a three-car smashup was actually two separate accidents. In Memphis, a collision with a city bus cost Businessman T. J. Downs Jr. $114 in repair bills, but the bus company's insurer offered him only half that amount-take it or leave it. He will take it. "It would cost more than $57 to fight the suit," says Downs. "They've got me over...
Greyhound's turn to diversification began in 1962, when Chairman Frederick W. Ackerman, fearing a leveling off of bus travel, began searching for new uses of Greyhound's cash. His first bet became a bonanza. For $14.7 million in stock, Greyhound bought San Francisco's Boothe Leasing Corp., which had been earning $400,000 a year mainly by leasing railroad freight cars and locomotives. Ackerman began buying jetliners-and made money when the credit-shy airlines started cashing in on the jet age. The subsidiary's earnings have zoomed 1,300%, to $6.2 million...
...institutions, a Manhattan fire and casualty insurance company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries Ltd. in Winnipeg, Canada, three years ago, after the Justice Department beefed about Greyhound's once heavy reliance on General Motors...